Human Enhancement

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Introduction
Human enhancements is not only just bionic limbs, computer brains, and half robot people. Human enhancements can vary from pharmaceutical, surgical, mechanical, and neurological operations (reillytop10). There is also another common stereotype that only disabled people have human enhancements. Anyone can have human enhancements. Human enhancements have saved millions of people since to beginning. They allowed people to live longer, more intelligent, healthier, and more physically fit lives. But without enhancements many people’s lives would be harder than most others. Enhancements, whether being positive or negative, has affected people. Human enhancements is crucial in our survival in the future if we are to live.
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Both the United States and China have implemented Disabilities Laws in their countries. These acts prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment, which was one of the main reasons to have enhancements in the first place. According to G. Owen Schaefer from TheConversation, in China, this may be linked to more generally approving attitudes toward old-fashioned eugenics programs such as selective abortion of fetuses with severe genetic disorders, though more research is needed to fully explain the difference. Other countries, such as India, have become more trusting towards the idea of …show more content…

Although helping millions, human enhancements still have a negative effect on others. Human enhancements have proven to extends one's lives. Yet it would also be extremely costly to receive these enhancements and could affect your personality and behavior (Temkin, Larry S. What's Wrong with Enhancements). Temkin talks about how “enhancements could lead to a uneven society which inclines towards the idea of putting additional strains on the social fabric of world societies and how it could monopolize the idea of enhancements making some countries more futuristic than others.”. According to Ronald Bailey in The Atlantic, human enhancements could make, “society becomes enhanced even more, in turn, making people live longer, the basic needs for humans such as love, family, friends, country, virtue, art, and spiritual life will be harder to maintain.”. Saying that the more enhancements that you receive, the less human you become, letting you live longer than the normal human. This also goes for loved one's as well, if they do not receive enhancements. This makes it increasingly harder for the user mentally and physically. Other problems that could come with human enhancements is that could lead to a eventul fight between nations quote, “fight for high ground in biogerontology.” (Juengst, Eric, ‘Anti-Aging Medicine, and

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